Improvement in combined ooal-hoppees and platfoem-soales



.F. & L. I. HOWE.

Coal Hopper and Scale.

"Patented May 5,1868.

nPErERs. PNOTO-LITNOGRAFH e i Q a garish. tetra 19mm first;

FRANK E. HOWE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND LINDSAY HOWE, OF BOSTON,

' MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters .Patent No. 77,488, dated May 5, 1868;

E ite Stimuli man in in time Eaters mint any making putt at the same.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known thatwe, FRANK E. HOWE, of the city, county, and State of New Yorlr, and LINDSAY I. HOWE,

of Boston, in the county ofSufl'olk, and State of Massachusetts,have invented a. new and improvedGombined Coal-Hopper and Scale; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,nnd exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. I

' This invention consists in combining a coal-hopper with a scale, in such amanner that cool maybe du'mped directly from the cart which delivers the coalinto the hopper of thescale, and weighed, and then discharged into the coal-hole.

The object of the invention is to obtain, by a very simple attachment to an ordinary platform-scale, a means whereby consumers of coal may weigh the same as it is delivered to them, and thereby prevent the fraud of light or short weight which is now almost universally practised by retail coal-dealers. In the accompanying sheet of drawings-' 7 I Figure 1 is a side sectional view of-our invention. 7

Figure 2, a vertical-section of the some, taken in the line a :c, fi

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. 1

A represents the levers or beams of any ordinary platform-scale, connected at one end by an upright rod, 13, with a graduated beam, O. D is the platform, which is attached centrally by pivots ate the levers A,

Y and this platform has a framing, E, secured upon it, whieh supports a coal-hopper, F, which has a bottom, G,

attached to'it, at one side, by hinges, b. This bottom is heldup at its free or disengaged end by a catch or' fastening, H, arranged in any suitable way.

I Below the hopper F there ,is a trough, I, which is' directly over a hole, J in. the top of the coal-hole. K is a spout, fitted in the" hole in the sidewalk, and extending down over the top of the hopper F. as shown Asthe coal is dumped from the cart over the hole in the sidewalk,-the coal is conveyed by the spout K into the hopper F, where it is weighed, it being understood, of course, that when the coal is in the hopper F, its whole weight is upon the platform, D.

After the coal is weighed, the bottom, G, is released by moving the catch or fastening, H, and the weighed coallfalls through the trough I into the c'oal-hole. v In those cases where the consumer is not provided with a coal-hole, but only. with a. vault, the platform scale may be plaecd on an elevated platform in the vault, underneath the hole in the'sidewalk, all that is required being space underneath to receive the weighed coal as it is discharged from the hopper on the scale.

This improvement may be applied to any of. the platform-scales in use.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent Thearrangeinent of the hop'per F, in the frame E, supported upon the scale-platform D, when such hopper is adapted to discharge the coal into the hopper I, passing directly through the scale-platform D, as herein shown and described. i

FRANK E. HOWE,

LINDSAY I'. HOWE. Witnesses to LINDSEY I. Hows:

B. F. BAKER, W. ATTERBURY.

Witnesses to FRANK E. Hows: WM. F. MCNAMARA, T. B. Mosnnn. 

